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One Billion Hard Drives! And Counting

Seagate Technology — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:46:43 +0000

By Michael Miller

I was interested to hear today that Seagate has sold its billionth hard drive.

That’s pretty amazing. Seagate is by far the first to reach that number, but of course it’s not the only player in the hard disk market, which has accounted for about 3.5 billion drives all told. (Western Digital, Samsung, Toshiba, Hitachi, and Fujitsu are the other current hard drive makers.)

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Seagate CEO looks ahead

Seagate Technology — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:17:28 +0000

Bill Watkins, CEO of Seagate Technology, and Michael Kanellos of CNET News.com discuss the future of the drive industry, the current economy, and some of the changes he’d like to see coming with the 2008 election.

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Seagate sues flash drive maker

Seagate Technology — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:02:10 +0000

Hard drive maker Seagate (STX) filed a patent suit against flash drive maker STEC (STEC) in federal court on Monday, firing the first shot in a new intellectual property battle between hard drive makers and providers of flash storage technology.

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Therese Poletti’s Tech Tales: Seagate CEO Sees No Signs of Consumer Spending Slowdown; Commentary: Contrarian Believes Wall Street is Too Focused on Itself

Seagate Technology — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:12:52 +0000

Bill Watkins talks about Wall Street, the economy, high tech, storage, flash and more.

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Seagate CEO: Blu-ray Won the Battle but Lost the War

Seagate Technology — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:17:11 +0000

Michael Kanellos talks with Bill Watkins about Blue-ray, surveillance, flash and more.

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CES: Seagate Not Seeing Slowing In Europe Or Asia, CEO Watkins Says; Why The Stock Is So Cheap

Seagate Technology — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:59:35 +0000

Eric Savitz writes about his meeting with Bill Watkins on his blog.

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CES Live: Sore feet at Seagate

Seagate Technology — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:53:29 +0000

Dean Takahashi talks with Bill Watkins at CES.

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Seagate Technology — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:47:19 +0000

Dean Takahashi on Seagate’s launch of its hybrid product (Momentus 5400) that combines a hard disk drive with flash memory storage. The Momentus 5400 press release is posted here as well as a link to the videocast interview, “Seagate Delivers Hybrid Hard Drive”, featuring Marc Jourlait, Seagate vice president Global Marketing.

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Can Seagate steer hybrid-drive market?

Seagate Technology — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:59:46 +0000

Seagate Technology, the industry’s largest producer of hard drives, has finally started shipping its first batch of hybrid hard drives for notebook PCs.

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Hard Driving

Seagate Technology — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:16:01 +0000

Digitalstorage is vital. But Seagate’s CEO says we don’t respect it - and the country needs to keep it.

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